HEROINE
ADAM AND EVE
SWINGING SONG
HOW THE DAYS WENT AT SEA-GULL BEACH
MAX AND BEPPO
PANSIES
"COME, LITTLE BIRD!"
SIRENA'S TROUBLE
LADY VIOLET
ON TRIAL
TWO LITTLE GIRLS
HELPFUL WORDS
FALSE SHAME
CLARA AND THE ANIMAL BOOK
AN ANECDOTE
THE UNSOCIABLE DUCKS
PUTTING OUT THE CANDLE
SULKY ARCHIE
A WISH FOR WINGS
CONSEQUENCES: A PARABLE
COMFORTABLE MRS. CROOK
AN EVENING SONG
"BUT THEN."
AN ANECDOTE
WHAT THE SNAIL SAID
ONLY NOW AND THEN
A SERPENT AMONG THE BOOKS
"LITTLE MOTHER."
LITTLE SCATTER
WHAT CHICKY THINKS
STOP-A-WHILE
THE BIRDS' CONCERT
ONLY A BOY
BIRD NEEDLEWORK
HE WAS A GENTLEMAN
TIME FOR BED
THE VALUE OF A GOOD NAME
DINGFORD'S BABY
A BED-TIME STORY
THE LESSON AFTER RECESS
THE LION AT THE "ZOO"
DISOBEYING MOTHER
PLANTS THAT EAT
THE CUCKOO CLOCK
DAVY'S GIRL
EARLY TEA
BONEY
CATCHING SNOW FLAKES
A MISCHIEVOUS MONKEY
THE AFRICAN SLAVE BOY
CLIMBING
LITTLE ELSIE
KITTY STRIKER
MAYING
GRACIE'S TEMPER
AN ANECDOTE
THE SWEET-GRASS HOUSE
JOHNNY'S GARDEN
BOY BILLY AND THE RABBIT
A FISH STORY

Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad.

[Illustration: THREE ORPHANS, ONE MOURNER.]

THE KITTENS' STEPMOTHER.

There are two little girls living nearly a hundred rods apart, Mamie
and Fannie. Each had a nice pet cat.

Mamie's cat had three little kittens. When they were about three weeks
old their poor mother was killed by a useless dog. For two days Mamie
fed her kittens with a spoon, and did all she could to comfort them;
but they would cry for their mother.

Fannie's cat had only one kitten, and it died at once. Then Mamie took
her three motherless kittens down to Fannie's cat to see if she would
adopt them. She took them at once, and made a great fuss over them.
Then she was allowed to raise them.

When Mamie thought her kittens were old enough she took all three of
them home again. But their stepmother would neither eat nor drink. She
cried and looked for the kittens. At last Fannie carried her cat up to
Mamie's house to see the kittens. Then mother and kittens were all
happy again, and played together as if they had never been separated.

When the girls saw how much the cat and kittens were attached to each
other they concluded to take Fannie's cat home again with only two of
the kittens; in a short time bring back one of them, and later the
last one. In this w